Fallen autumn leaves are a valuable resource – here's how to make the most of them

Garden leaves make good compost, but street leaves are too polluted.

Anita Carey, PhD Candidate, School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Nov. 23, 2023 • ~6 min

This is the world's hottest autumn on record – and it's impacting the climate system and human society

Relative to the long-term average, this autumn has been even hotter than summer.

Christopher J White, Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde • conversation
Nov. 14, 2023 • ~6 min

This is the hottest autumn on record – and it's impacting the climate system and human society

Relative to the long-term average, this autumn has been even hotter than summer.

Christopher J White, Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde • conversation
Nov. 14, 2023 • ~6 min

Want a healthier lawn? Instead of bagging fall leaves, take the lazy way out and get a more environmentally friendly yard

Mulching feeds your lawn and garden with nutrients and organic matter.

Susan Barton, Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware • conversation
Nov. 8, 2023 • ~5 min

Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees, lengthening pollen season in US cities

Artificial light is upending trees’ ability to use the natural day-night cycle as a signal of seasonal change.

Yuyu Zhou, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Iowa State University • conversation
July 12, 2022 • ~5 min

Climate change is muting fall colors, but it's just the latest way that humans have altered US forests

Warm autumn weather has produced dull leaf colors across the eastern US this year, but climate change isn’t the only way that humans have altered trees’ fall displays.

Marc Abrams, Professor of Forest Ecology and Physiology, Penn State • conversation
Oct. 27, 2021 • ~8 min

Climate change is making autumn leaves change colour earlier – here's why

Warmer temperatures cannot increase the amount of carbon deciduous trees absorb in each growing season, a new study suggests.

Philip James, Professor of Ecology, University of Salford • conversation
Nov. 26, 2020 • ~6 min

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